Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

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The history of Muslims in America stretches back to the earliest days of European exploration in North America.

Muslims have been part of the American story from the very beginning.

https://theconversation.com/muslims-were-part-of-americas-story-long-before-the-republic-began-285895
#America250

Interview: Inflicting "Civil Death" to crush dissent

Western states are testing the limits of their repression of free speech by sanctioning dissenters.

They're inflicting "civil death" on dissenters - freezing bank accounts, preventing them from working, disallowing exit from the country, criminalising help seeking, etc.

~German journalist, Hüseyin Dogru, sanctioned by the EU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD8SDssOLAs

#EUPol #USPol #Germany #censorship #palestine #democracy #EU #CivilDeath #dissent .

02/07/2026 - 14:27
#DeepStateMap

🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Armed Forces pushed back the enemy in #Plavni.

#Ukraine
#Russia
#Ukrainerussiawar
#NAFO

Interview: "Inside the Collapse of Global Accountability for Israel"

* Israel’s renewed push for so-called “voluntary migration” of Palestinians;

* New revelations about the Hannibal Directive during Oct7;

* The myth of Israeli military invincibility;

* Israel is pushing Lebanon towards civil war as part of a wider regional strategy.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260701-inside-the-collapse-of-global-accountability-for-israel-palestine-this-week/

#USPol #EUPol #israeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #displacementReplacement #gazaGenocide #news #palestine #Lebanon #IranWar #news .

Look at these fun guys

#mushtodon #mushroom

Inker has the right idea, according to the label anyway. That's a pretty sturdy box considering the weight that's on it.

#cat

Technically, the extinction of the dinosaurs is the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

@apenkop

When people were unionised, their strikes could topple governments.

Now, though, eg:
In Minneapolis, "anger against ICE terror was a really unifying force.. ordinary workers were talking about a general strike."

It was "a perfect moment for the labor leadership to organize... a major strike". But, instead, it sent emails to members about the no-strike clauses in their contracts.

"No labor leader has any business accepting a no strike clause" Kshama Sawant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXXyPL9eFU .

A Nigerian nun was cuffed by ICE a block from her church, on her way to Sunday Mass.

Sister Letty is a registered nurse who has worked for a decade in South Texas hospitals. DHS still won't say why they detained her. She was only released because two members of Congress made calls.

Read more from Let’s Address Texas State Director Saadia Mirza. And subscribe to support her work and demands for accountability.

https://letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/nun-detained-by-ice-while-walking?r=4hra2n&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Now THIS is quality reporting on Trump's crypto gains - accurately highlighting the pump-and-dump scam

Well done @juddlegum

https://popular.info/p/pump-and-dump-how-trump-made-636?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=204541920&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2cxom&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Day 1,590 of the full scale invasion has begun

Estimated russian losses from February 24, 2022 to July 02, 2026 of the russian all-out war against Ukraine, according to the General Staff of #Ukraine

🔷 Yesterday 1,140 enemy, killed or wounded

Trump's son Don Jr. is a board member of 4 companies and advisor to 6 more.

I remember Republican complaints that Hunter Biden went to the Ukraine, or was on a board, or some such.

The Republicans aren't currently complaining about Trump's grift because they do not now care, and in fact never cared about this issue.

They just wanted to attack Biden.

It's like their religion: it's all a put on.

Made up.

Meaningless.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@politico/politics-u9ikh4qkz/-/a-CZkxlrc3RCWn7cBymFRn5w%3Aa%3A3195449-%2F0

Yay! Steve Bannon argues that #Mandami #BernieSanders #DSA are the ascendant political force like the #TeaParty populists pre-Koch corruption, and both MAGA and Democratic Party playbooks of "money wins" and traditional endorsements will no longer be determinate - enthusiasm, commitment, actions, and a resonant working people's message is now "the coin of the political realm" not billionaire or Party money that wins (take that SCOTUS).

Bannon is pretty freaked out by Colorado socialists wins. He believes Mandami is not just a localized liberal NYC one-off, but a national trend. Bannon intimates that Trump is a disruptor, not a populist and cannot be replicated. Bannon, an unrepentant global white Christian nationalist/fascist is pushing his fear of this new emerging political change as "Marxist jihadism" ie every accusation is a confession.

It may be why Trump is pushing "Commie" fearmongering... meanwhile a J6er Trump pardoned was revealed to have been a paid agent for Rubio's nemesis Cuba (paid by the grandson of Fidel, a Cuban government official). But low info MAGA don't care - they're angered by high prices in food, housing, and healthcare, by opulence and ostentatious shoved-in-our-faces wealth by those who claim to care but don't. Trump and MAGA and Musk as the avatars of the billionaire/trillionaire Epstein class are over.

I try my best to describe American culture to other folks in other countries: "Americans, well... no fucks given, none provided, none earned."

In Russia, the Kstovo refinery in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is wondering if war with Ukraine was a good idea.

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